When I saw this come up,and it was at that price,I knew it would not last long.I'll play this at my gig Friday night and rock it with respect for you and all our U.S.Peavey brethren!
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I like the maple neck,.would love to have a maple fury or foundation. My foundation is rosewood. Also the obnoxious red, and even more beat up than yours (but the hardware was clean). Of course for $40 with an equally beat up hardcase I can't complain.
I am envious of your string tree. The 90s fury I had back then had that type. Mine has the round fender style that only does the D and G. Does anyone know what year they made the change? Otherwise it is the same, vfl pickups and asymmetrical bridge, block logo etc.
Is it normal for the.vfl foundation to have a.huge difference in bass response between pickups? Even with the bridge pickup raised much higher than the neck pickup, the bridge soloed has soooo much less low end response. Perhaps the pickups are swapped? My ibanez SR500 was like that and apparently ibanez did that on purpose, to get a more aggressive bridge sound and a deeper neck sound.
My jazz bass is not like that, the bridge still has solid lows.
So I generally use my foundation both full, both with neck rolled back a tad to get the mid bump, or.neck only. I figured it might be how close the pickup is to the bridge, much closer than a jazz.
It could come in handy for switching to a Lemmy tone lol
My jazz bass is not like that, the bridge still has solid lows.
So I generally use my foundation both full, both with neck rolled back a tad to get the mid bump, or.neck only. I figured it might be how close the pickup is to the bridge, much closer than a jazz.
It could come in handy for switching to a Lemmy tone lol
I am a recent appreciator of Peavey basses, based on a pawnshop Foundation I liked so much I followed it up with an eBay International Milestone II. (Where I live, looking for Peaveys in pawn shops and mom 'n' pops is like looking for hay in a haystack.) Now I want to complete the trifecta with a fretless, but those are not put on a wall every day it seems. Anybody want to hazard a guess as to the proportionality of fretlesses in Peavey production runs over the years?
I do have a Milestone IV neck I could defret, but the work is tedious and I just do not have enough motivation right now to tackle the job.
I do have a Milestone IV neck I could defret, but the work is tedious and I just do not have enough motivation right now to tackle the job.
From what I've seen showing up for sale for the last ten years, I'd say .001%. First model Foundations are the most common.
As far as I know the string tree changed in '91or'92.The pick ups on these are single coils,not the VFL's.Same cover and size as VFL's,but different guts.The difference in response between the bridge and neck pups is due to the physical location.
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Maybe mine aren't vfl either, but they look like them. Mine have a very low 60cycle him that goes away when both pickups are up full. But then again, I gathered from here that the vfl is a single coil pickup anyway. And that there were 2 versions of foundation pickups, super ferrite, and vfl.
VFL pick ups are internally active and require a battery.The Foundations have passive single coils and when you solo one or the other you'll get the 60 cycle hum.Both on will act as a hum canceling scenario.
There is a passive version of the VFL that was used in 2nd model Foundations and maybe some others. I recently bought a beater just for the pickups, neck and after market hardware. The flat top active VFL looking pickups in the 2nd model Dyna Bass are not VFLs. The 1991 manual refers to them as "internally active humbuckers". VFLs are single coils whether passive or active.
I was going by the info put out in the owners manuals and figured they would have mentioned VFL's if they were used in Foundations.My bad!
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Hi guys! Not looking for a club number, but thought you might be interested in this little project of mine.
I was looking on the 'Bay for a ready-made body to fit a Fender-spec neck that I have. I don't really like Fender stuff though, so I was looking for something different that would still match the Fender dimensions. Found this early Foundation body for cheap, and thought I'd give it a shot:
Well, as you guys probably already know, it isn't Fender-spec. That neck pocket is just a wee bit too close to the bridge.
That meant a change of plans - now I have this kinda-cool body and no neck to go on it. Only one thing to do - make a neck for it! But if we're gonna do that, then the sky's the limit now. I can change some of the other annoying things I dislike about Fender-style stuff, most notoriously that awful blocky neck heel.
I knew this body was maple underneath from my research, so I sanded off all that janky black poly. Sure enough, there was a decent-looking four-piece maple body. I chopped off the neck heel, ripped out the micro-tilt, and cut a deep tenon for my new neck - the original rear neck bolt holes are now the front neck bolt holes.
I opened up the pickup routes just big enough to fit a pair of Bart-sized Aguilar DCB pickups. I also inserted some plywood sections in the bottom of the routes to provide something to screw the Aguilars down to.
The neck is a narrow-spaced five-string, maple/cherry/maple, with a Pau Ferro fretboard and a reverse headstock, to add a little flair. 24 frets, 33" scale. Finished body and neck in about ten coats of high-gloss Formby's Tung Oil (love the look of raw maple under oil!). Schaller roller bridge, Gotoh GB7 tuners, passive volume/blend (for now - might add a preamp later).
I was surprised at the amount of flame in the body! Shame to cover it up with opaque black...
Made a temporary control cavity out of some scrap maple. Might finish that one, or might look for an original black plastic cover. Anybody got one they want to donate?
Yes, you can still just see the original screw holes for the Super Ferrite pickup rings, as well as the front screw holes for the original trapezoidal bridge. And the hole for the micro-tilt is still obvious. But for a quick-n-dirty little project, I can live with that!
Just wired it up today, so haven't had much play time with it yet. but I like what I hear through my practice amp so far. Weight is right at 9 pounds, which isn't light, but isn't heavy either.
So, not exactly a USA Peavey, but there's a family resemblance at least!
I was looking on the 'Bay for a ready-made body to fit a Fender-spec neck that I have. I don't really like Fender stuff though, so I was looking for something different that would still match the Fender dimensions. Found this early Foundation body for cheap, and thought I'd give it a shot:
Well, as you guys probably already know, it isn't Fender-spec. That neck pocket is just a wee bit too close to the bridge.
That meant a change of plans - now I have this kinda-cool body and no neck to go on it. Only one thing to do - make a neck for it! But if we're gonna do that, then the sky's the limit now. I can change some of the other annoying things I dislike about Fender-style stuff, most notoriously that awful blocky neck heel.
I knew this body was maple underneath from my research, so I sanded off all that janky black poly. Sure enough, there was a decent-looking four-piece maple body. I chopped off the neck heel, ripped out the micro-tilt, and cut a deep tenon for my new neck - the original rear neck bolt holes are now the front neck bolt holes.
I opened up the pickup routes just big enough to fit a pair of Bart-sized Aguilar DCB pickups. I also inserted some plywood sections in the bottom of the routes to provide something to screw the Aguilars down to.
The neck is a narrow-spaced five-string, maple/cherry/maple, with a Pau Ferro fretboard and a reverse headstock, to add a little flair. 24 frets, 33" scale. Finished body and neck in about ten coats of high-gloss Formby's Tung Oil (love the look of raw maple under oil!). Schaller roller bridge, Gotoh GB7 tuners, passive volume/blend (for now - might add a preamp later).
I was surprised at the amount of flame in the body! Shame to cover it up with opaque black...
Made a temporary control cavity out of some scrap maple. Might finish that one, or might look for an original black plastic cover. Anybody got one they want to donate?
Yes, you can still just see the original screw holes for the Super Ferrite pickup rings, as well as the front screw holes for the original trapezoidal bridge. And the hole for the micro-tilt is still obvious. But for a quick-n-dirty little project, I can live with that!
Just wired it up today, so haven't had much play time with it yet. but I like what I hear through my practice amp so far. Weight is right at 9 pounds, which isn't light, but isn't heavy either.
So, not exactly a USA Peavey, but there's a family resemblance at least!
@ctmullins ....sharp lookin' !!! Nice work on that project and I love the semi-gloss oil. Are you going to use a string retainer? I have a reverse headstock parts Dyna that's strung BEAD and it really helped tighten the feel and sound of the B and E. I've since moved it closer to the topnut.
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